The school's mission was to get us ready to survive in real combat.

"We are about to get down to the real combat," she told him.

Those were the moments of greatest danger, just as they had been in real combat.

He was always a skilled individual, both in training exercises and real combat.

Indeed, the real combat - on land - has yet to begin.

And I don't want you to die in real combat because you're thinking about something else.

It was going a little fast, Kennedy thought, like real combat, even.

It looked more like a tavern fight than real combat, so far, which was just as well.

They had behaved well under the pressure of real combat, his students.